IOS iMessage

How can I prevent family members from receiving my texts with the new 6.1 iOS? It seems that all my devices receive the entire family's text messages.
For example we have 3 devices.
One iPhone recieves all the text messages, those meant to be sent to the device and those not.
Another iPhone also recieves iMessages sent to the device and iMessages sent to the other devices.
How do we fix this?

This is happening b/c you are sharing apple id.
ON all devices go to settings - send & receive - make sure the cell # is the default.
YOu can either create new apple ids, or just remove them in message settings.

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